Subdivision & Land Development Activity Map

History of Growth Trends

The Cumberland County Planning Department has entered growth figures into a database since 2008. Until 2019, the data was provided by hand-written plan applications and manually entered in the database by the planning department staff. Likewise, the annual growth trends report, written by the planning department required data entry to show the charts and graphs depicting trends in land development.

Beginning in 2019, the planning department began to require electronic plan submissions using an online application. Using the application, submission data was automatically captured and stored into a database. While a review of the submission data is still required, the process became much more efficient and accurate.  

Along with the new electronic plan submission, the planning department began to require additional information for each plan submission. The latitude and longitude provide an exact location for each plan. In addition, the applicant must provide a proposed square footage of nonresidential buildings. With the information collected, the planning department was able to locate and track both nonresidential growth (square footage) and residential growth (dwelling units).

The planning department began to work with the Cumberland County IMTO department and the GIS department to create tools and applications to demonstrate growth and development using the information in the database. The result of this work is access to current growth and development trends at any time. The image below includes plan submitted from 2019 – April of 2024. 

To view the Growth Trends webpage: https://gis.ccpa.net/growthtrends/

For more information: Using the Subdivision and Land Use Growth Trends website